Metal Archives doesn't mention this album and have the bands founding date in error, apparently this band started in the late 1970's or at the most in 1980. They released two singles before releasing this debut album. Later they shifted to a more Melodic Metal/Heavy Metal which resulted in the release of the more known 1989 "Queen Of The World" on which only the vocalist Daniel Duvieusart still survived to make the recording.Download Info:

The band was formed by former Kiss guitarist Mark St. John and former Black Sabbath vocalist David Donato, along with St. John's younger brother and guitar technician during his time in Kiss, Michael Norton, on bass, and drummer Brian James Fox.

The band whose Glam metal image and sound was somewhat similar to 80's-era Kiss were dropped from their record label in later 1986 after executives saw no potential hit singles on their self-titled debut album.

The band recorded a 7 track demo in 1988 with the same line-up, the intention was to record a second album but the band split up before they could complete the album.

White Tiger was the only album released in 1986 by the band until the 1999 release of the demo collection "Raw".

On April 5, 2007, Mark St. John died from an apparent cerebral hemorrhage at age 51.

01 - Entrance
02 - All Hell Let Loose
03 - Loser in Love
04 - Liar
05 - See You in Hell
06 - Suck It and See
07 - Now Or Never

Notes:

This demo is notoriously confused with the 1982's For Demonstration Only release due to it using the same name and containing the Demo 82 (tracks 01-04), but they are both different demos. They are using the same artwork, but the 1983 release features a hand-colored red cover instead of the original white one.

The tape cover states that "Demo '83 was never released for sale" (separately)

The three songs included in this 7"EP will be rereleased when the band changed
its name into "Savatage": the A-side "City beneath the Surface" and the 2nd of
the B-side "The Whip" on the "Dungeons Are Calling" EP (1985, Combat Records)
while the B-side opener "Sirens" became the title-track of the first Savatage's
full length (1983, Par Records).

The very first 25 copies were printed in yellow vinyl and the remaining 975 in
black vinyl for a total amount of 1.000 copies pressed.

Track 01 was co-written by Ronnie J. Dio, Wendy Dio co-wrote on tracks 04 and 06. Also to note is track 02 is indeed an Erma Franklin cover, she was the first performer of this song, but the song is more associated with Janis Joplin. Something similar with 'Diamonds and Rust' which is more associated with Judas Priest than with Joan Baez who wrote and first performed the song in 1975.

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